1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 1, 2:16 PM CST, 12 hours 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 216 PM CST SUN JAN 1 2006 .DISCUSSION... UNSEASONABLY WRM WX FOR THE START OF 2006. LATEST RUC ANLYS SHOWING STG 800-600 MB WAA OVR CNTRL MO ON NOSE OF 45KT SWLY LLJ. PCPN CHCS WILL INCR TGT AS MID-UPR LVL LOW OVR WRN KS AND ASSOCIATED SFC LOW OVR OK PNHDL MOVS E-NEWD INTO CNTRL MO BY 12Z MON. HIGHER 850 MB DWPTS CONFINED TO THE GULF COAST REGION ON 12Z ANLYS BUT THESE SHOULD BE SPREADING RAPIDLY NWD INTO ERN AND SRN PTNS OF THE CWA BY LTR TGT AS STG 50 KT SWLY LLJ TRANSLATES E-NEWD INTO SERN MO BY 06Z MON AHD OF 850 MB LOW. SFC DWPTS IN THE LWR 50S HAVE ALREADY PUSHED NWD INTO MOST OF SRN MO ATTM. NAM MDL SHOWS INSTABILITY INCRSG THIS EVNG WITH SFC LI VALUES DROPPING TO 0 TO -2 OVR THE SRN PTN OF THE CWA BY 06Z MON AND -2 TO -5 FM STL SWD BY 12Z MON IN AXIS OF BEST LOW LVL MOISTURE AHD OF CDFNT. APRS THERE WILL BE A POTENTIAL OF A FEW LOW TOPPED FAST MOVING SVR STORMS OVR THE SERN PTN OF THE CWA LT THIS EVNG AND OVERNIGHT WHERE THE MOST ABUNDANT LOW LVL MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL EXIST AHD OF THE CDFNT AND BELOW THE DRY SLOT. MDL TIME SECTIONS INDICATE THAT THE MOISTURE WILL BE RELATIVELY SHALLOW MAINLY BLW 800 MB WITH DRY AIR AT 700 MB TGT BFR WRPARND TYPE MOISTURE MOVS SEWD THRU MOST OF THE CWA BY LT MRNG AND EARLY AFTN BHND LOW. THERE MAY ALSO BE A POTENTIAL OF TSRA ACRS THE NRN PTN OF THE CWA AS WELL LTR TGT INTO MON MRNG ALNG AND JUST N OF THE WRMFNT EXTDG FM THE SFC LOW IN CNTRL MO E THRU CNTRL IL AT 12Z MON. POTENTIAL FOR CONVECTION SHOULD END BY 18Z MON AS SFC LOW MOVS E-NE OF STL WITH DRIER SFC DWPTS ADVCTG SEWD THRU CWA. MAY BE LINGERING LGT RAIN MAINLY OVR THE NERN PTN OF THE CWA DRNG THE AFTN HRS N OF MID LVL LOW. SHOULD NOT SEE MUCH OF A DIURNAL RISE IN TEMPS OVR NRN AND CNTRL MO TOMORROW WITH LTL IF ANY SOLAR INSOLATION...PCPN AND AT LEAST WK CAA DURING THE AFTN. QUIET WX ON TUE AS MID-UPR LVL RDG PUSHES EWD OVR REGION WITH WK SFC RDG AT SFC. MAY BE A CHC OF LGT RN LT TUE NGT AND WED AHD OF NW FLOW SHRTWV TROF AND ASSOCIATED CDFNT ALTHOUGH IT APRS MOST OF THE PCPN WILL BE NE OF THE CWA CLOSER TO THE SFC LOW. && .AVIATION... ON OR ABOUT JANUARY 15TH...WFO ST LOUIS WILL BEGIN ISSUING AN AVIATION DISCUSSION WITH EVERY SCHEDULED ISSUANCE OF TERMINAL AERODROME FORECASTS. && .LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. IL...NONE. && GKS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 350 PM CST SUN JAN 1 2006 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-021200- ADAMS IL-AUDRAIN-BOND IL-BOONE-BROWN IL-CALHOUN IL-CALLAWAY- CLINTON IL-COLE-CRAWFORD-FAYETTE IL-FRANKLIN-GASCONADE-GREENE IL- IRON-JEFFERSON-JERSEY IL-KNOX-LEWIS-LINCOLN-MACOUPIN IL-MADISON- MADISON IL-MARION-MARION IL-MONITEAU-MONROE-MONROE IL-MONTGOMERY- MONTGOMERY IL-OSAGE-PIKE-PIKE IL-RALLS-RANDOLPH IL-REYNOLDS- SHELBY-ST. CHARLES-ST. CLAIR IL-ST. FRANCOIS-ST. LOUIS- ST. LOUIS CITY-STE. GENEVIEVE-WARREN-WASHINGTON-WASHINGTON IL- 350 PM CST SUN JAN 1 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. THE PRIMARY SEVERE THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL...WITH SOMEWHAT LESSER CHANCES FOR DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE WILL BE A CONTINUING CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY MORNING FOR AREAS NORTH AND EAST OF THE ST LOUIS METROPOLITAN AREA. AT THIS TIME...SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TES
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
254 AM CST MON JAN 02 2006
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..REMARKS..
0245 AM HAIL TROY 38.98N 90.98W
01/02/2006 1.00 INCH LINCOLN MO CO-OP OBSERVER
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CVKINGPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
255 AM CST MON JAN 02 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0230 AM HAIL 4 SW WASHINGTON 38.51N 91.06W
01/02/2006 1.00 INCH FRANKLIN MO TRAINED SPOTTER
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CVKINGThe St Louis radar (KLSX), 20 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:00 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A small tornado downed trees and damaged an outbuilding southwest of New Melle.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5488448.